The State of International Migration Studies in Southern Africa

International Colloquium

17 March 2008 – 19 March 2008

Seminar Room, South West Engineering Building, Wits University

Focus areas

• Rethinking Belonging: Community, Ethnicity and Nationality
• New Migrations, New Methods? Southern Africa as an Experimental Lab
• Who Calls the Shots? Migration Research Agenda Setting in Southern Africa
• Looking into the ‘Black Box’ of Migration Policy-Making in Southern Africa
• Revisiting Livelihoods: Trade, Labour Markets and Transnationalism
• Agency and the Imagination of Places

Public lecture

El Houhoub Mouhoud, Univ. of Paris Dauphine, CNRS
North-South Migration Paradoxes and Impasse: What Lessons for South-South Migrations?
17 March 2008 – Seminar Room, SW Engineering Building – 18:00

Book Launch

Jeff Handmaker, Lee Anne de la Hunt, Jonathan Klaaren (eds.)
Advancing Refugee Protection in South Africa, 2008, Berghahn Books, Oxford
19 March 2008 – Chalsty Centre, Wits Law School – 18:00